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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning are empowering humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education